Are we going to hear him talking frequently about the need to do this?

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These are all important issues that you'll hear him talking about, a lot more than about his general election opponent.

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Do you think that it was an opportunity that -- I mean, do you think most Americans normally hear him talking about those kinds of serious subjects in the way that he was today?

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"It was wonderful to hear him simply talking and laughing again, " says Udell.

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But he did say that Chateaubriand, in old age, thought he was going deaf only because he could no longer hear anyone talking about him.

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